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There were eight entries of nice Rye Flour, capable of making ths 

 very best bread of the kind. One of the boxes, contained a remark- 

 ably white and beautiful specimen, to which the committee unani- 

 mously awarded the first premium. Three others were nearly alike 

 in their good qualities, rendering it somewhat difficult to decide to 

 Avhich to give the preference. All the entries were worth presenting, 

 and were alike exhibitions of taste and skilful management, in the 

 cultivation of rye. Good Rye Flour depends on several things : The 

 seed sown should be of the best quality. Meadow or plain land is 

 said to produce the whitest and nicest flour. The harvest must be 

 gathered, in just the appropriate time, in a dry state. Very much 

 also depends upon the grinding. If all these things are attended to, 

 flour may be produced from rye, almost equal to the wheat flour, 

 which comes from the west. Rye so useful for bread, as well as for 

 animal food, should receive more attention from our farmers in its 

 cultivation, especially as it commands so high a price. 



REPORT ON RYE AND INDIAN BREAD. 



BY KEY. W. H. BEAMAN. 



An essential to good housewifery is the art of making good bread. 

 The managers of this Society have shown their appreciation of this 

 fact, by assigning three committees to this department. Had they 

 selected women, instead of clergymGii for chairmen, they would have 

 shown tliemselves to be wiser men. For we meet the women here 

 on their own ground ; and if wc are the mouth pieces, we must say 

 about what they tell us to say, in making up our judgment. The 

 awards have accordingly been made and published. 



A few words may be hazarded however without their personal as- 

 sent. There were five specimens of the old fashioned Rye and In- 

 dian Bread — such as everybody eat in the days of our childhood, be- 

 fore warm wheat Biscuit and Dyspepsia came into fashion. It is 

 hoped, the day is distant, when this brown staff of our revered, vigor- 

 ous ancestors, will be wholly exchanged for one that is whiter, light- 

 er, but not stronger. If the wives and mothers would have hardy 



